FLORENCE, SC – – Marine veteran Phil Klay, whose exploration of the emotional trauma inflicted by combat in Iraq and Afghanistan vaulted him onto the New York Times Bestseller List, is the headliner for the 10th annual Pee Dee Fiction and Poetry Festival at Francis Marion University.
The annual two-day festival will be held on campus Nov. 10-11. It features panel discussions and book signings by the authors. It is free and open to the public. The festival also plays an integral role in fall classes at FMU. Works by the participating authors are taught in select classes. Students then have an opportunity to meet with the authors in special workshops and discussion groups. Klay will be joined at the festival by award-winning authors Angela Flournoy, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Catherine Pierce.
FMU faculty chair and English professor Rebecca Flannagan organizes the event with a committee of faculty members from the Department of English. She says this year’s event will be a momentous one. “We are excited to have fiction writers Phil Klay and Angela Flournoy whose award-winning books will be taught in our composition and literature classes,” says Flannagan. “Our poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Catherine Pierce will be featured in creative writing and literature classes, as well. We have a great line-up of young writers whose works will resonate on both the personal and political level.”
For more information on the authors and events at the Festival, go to the Festival online at http://departments.fmarion.edu/english/pdfpf/.
